• Attracting Third-Party Developers to Emerging Software Ecosystems: Your First Line of End-Users 

  Watson, Jordan (2022-10-24)

  Context: The explosive growth of renowned software ecosystems such as the cloud-based accounting platform Xero, and the communication hub Slack has largely occurred because of an app marketplace they have built. To a ...
• Group-Envy Fairness in the Stochastic Bandit Setting 

  Scinocca, Stephen (2022-09-29)

  We introduce a new, group fairness-inspired stochastic multi-armed bandit problem in the pure exploration setting. We look at the discrepancy between an arm’s mean reward from a group and the highest mean reward for any ...
• How a remote software organization builds a shared understanding of NFRs 

  Okpara, Laura Onyinyechi (2022-09-22)

  Building a shared understanding of non-functional requirements (NFRs) is a known but understudied challenge in requirements engineering, primarily in organizations that adopt continuous software engineering (CSE) practices. ...
• Constructive Physical Visualization and Children: Benefits and Challenges 

  Castaneda Bueno, Andrea (2022-09-01)

  Data visualization is a medium that allows us to understand, analyze, and communicate information on a daily basis. There is considerable research on the role of visualization for adults, both in professional and casual ...
• Efficient Skyline Community Discovery in Large Networks 

  Akber, Mohammad Ali (2022-08-30)

  Every entity in the real world can be described uniquely by it’s attributes. It is possible to rank similar entities based on these attributes, i.e. a professor can be ranked by his/her number of publications, citations ...
• AI Supported Software Development: Moving Beyond Code Completion 

  Pudari, Rohith (2022-08-30)

  AI-supported programming has arrived, as shown by the introduction and successes of large language models for code, such as Copilot/Codex (Github/OpenAI) and AlphaCode (DeepMind). Above-average human performance on programming ...
• The application of nucleic acid interaction structure prediction 

  Newman, Tara (2022-08-26)

  Motivation: Understanding how nucleic acids interact is essential for understanding their function. Controlling these interactions, for example, can allow us to detect diseases and create new therapeutics. During quantitative ...
• Scalable IoT Network Testbed with Hybrid Device Emulation 

  Zhao, Zhengan (2022-08-19)

  In recent years, the Internet of Things (IoT) has been proliferating in various fields, such as health care, smart city, and connected autonomous vehicles. Accompanying the popularity of IoT are security attacks that ...
• A New Audio Compression Scheme that Leverages Repetition in Music 

  Lotfaliei, Matin (2022-08-17)

  Music frequently exhibits regular repeating structure because of musical beats, vamps, and rhythms. In this thesis, an audio compression algorithm that takes advantage of this structure is described. After providing some ...
• Exploring Design Discussions With Semi-Supervised Topic Modelling 

  Lasrado, Roshan N. (2022-08-11)

  Stack Overflow is a rich source of questions and answers—discussions—about software development. One topic of discussion is software design, such as the correct use of design patterns or best practices in data access. Since ...
• Efficient Graph Summarization of Large Networks 

  Hajiabadi, Mahdi (2022-06-24)

  In this thesis, we study the notion of graph summarization, which is a fundamental task of finding a compact representation of the original graph called the summary. Graph summarization can be used for reducing the ...
• Dimensional Analysis of Data Flow Programs 

  Shennat, Abdulmonem Ibrahim (2022-05-24)

  Our main objective is to design Dimensional Analysis (DA) algorithms for the multidimensional dialect PyLucid of Lucid, the equational data flow language. The significance is that the DA is indispensable for an efficient ...
• Evaluation of network inference algorithms and their effects on network analysis for the study of small metabolomic data sets 

  Greenyer, Haley (2022-05-24)

  Motivation: Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) is a highly prevalent, neurodegenerative disease which causes gradual cognitive decline. As documented in the literature, evi- dence has recently mounted for the role of metabolic ...
• A smart autoflight control system infrastructure 

  Heinemann, Stephan (2022-05-02)

  Connected aviation, the Internet of Flying Things and related emerging technologies, such as the System-Wide Information Management infrastructure of the FAA NextGen program, present numerous opportunities for the aviation ...
• Dynamic allocation of resources using machine learning and quantile regression by harnessing the power of software defined networks 

  Alutaibi, Ahmed (2022-05-02)

  In the last decade, data networks have shifted from the static deployment of resources to a dynamic approach. With the help of Software Defined Networks (SDN) and Network Function Visualization (NFV), information and data ...
• An infrastructure for autonomic and continuous long-term software evolution 

  Jiménez, Miguel (2022-04-29)

  Increasingly complex dynamics in the software operations pose formidable software evolution challenges to the software industry. Examples of these dynamics include the globalization of software markets, the massive increase ...
• Data quality trust: a provenance-based data quality assessment method and its integration with interoperable electronic medical record systems 

  Stoldt, Jean-Philippe (2022-04-26)

  Data quality is a critical requirement for data-driven clinical decision making in modern healthcare. It is a key prerequisite to many clinical analytics applications, yet much of the research to date focuses on assessing ...
• Adapting a system-theoretic hazard analysis method for interoperability of information systems in health care 

  Costa Rocha, Oscar Aleixo (2022-04-25)

  The adoption of Health Information Systems (HIS) by primary care clinics and practitioners has become a standard in the healthcare industry. This increase in HIS utilization enables the informatization and automation of ...
• Identifying RNA secondary structures in the SARS-CoV-2 viral genome 

  Ziesel, Alison (2022-04-21)

  Motivation: SARS-CoV-2 is the virus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic that currently impacts our world. SARS-CoV-2 is an enveloped, positive sense single stranded RNA virus and like other RNA viruses is known to form ...
• Improving the learning experience of decision support systems in entrepreneurship with 3D management simulation games 

  Gould, Olga (2022-04-12)

  Business simulation games are used in educational institutions and various industries in the private and public sector to train students and employees to practice the principles of management and decision-making skills by ...

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